Specialist: Audit (Syndicated Tax Custom Crime Division- Illicit Economic Activity (Tax)) at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To provide technical and functional advice and guidance in the execution of audits/investigations on multiple cases and projects, across multiple tax types in compliance with all legislative requirements. Drive delivery against the audit's/ investigation's/project's planning, performance, documentation and elements of reporting

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) BCom Accounting/ Audit, Law Degree, AND 8-10 years' experience in a Financial Forensic Investigative/ Audit environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level                                                                                                                                                                             Or
• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years Financial Forensic Investigative/ Audit experience, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level

Minimum Functional Requirements 

• Applicable to a specific Audit environment e.g. Tax, Customs or Excise business environments.

Job Outputs:

Process

• Identify and analyse high revenue cases for audit/ civil investigation, debt and criminal investigations relating to fraudulent syndicate activities.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance specific to a complex project and or professional discipline (different tax types).
• To execute, guide, direct and provide specialist advise on multiple cases, projects, across all tax types, and to lead investigations of medium to complex in nature, serve as a witness when required in compliance with all legislative requirements
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to the strategy of the project(s). 
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
• Develop and monitor a quality standard in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice & system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
• Translate top-down policy in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Provide technical guidance and training to other team members
• Conduct investigations/audits (plan, execute, finalize) of a high standard in which policies, standards, procedures, and legislation are correctly applied

Governance

• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability

People

• Enable a culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
• Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of tax crimes investigations.
• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

Finance

• Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.

Client

• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
• Develop & ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourage others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.

Behavioural competencies

• Fairness and Transparency
• Analytical Thinking
• Accountability
• Conceptual Ability
• Working With Others
• Honesty and Integrity
• Trust
• Respect
• Problem Solving and Analysis
• Conceptual Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Organisational Awareness
• Building Sustainability

Technical competencies

• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Search and Seizure
• Reporting
• Business Knowledge
• Efficiency improvement
• Criminal Investigation
• Decision Making and Problem Solving
• Expert witness

Compliance Competency

• GOC Confidential
• ADJECTIVE LAW 4
• SUBSTANTIVE LAW 2
• Collection and preservation of evidence and the chain of custody (Investigations)
• Interviewing and interrogation (Investigations)
• Testify in formal and criminal proceedings
• Investigative reporting